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I write strictly for fun... as long as it stays fun I'll continue to do it.

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Tom Clancy
Age: 66 †
Born: 1947
Born: April 12
Died: 2013
Died: October 1
Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
Prosaist
Writer
Baltimore
Maryland
Thomas Leo Clancy Jr.
Thomas Leo Tom Clancy Jr.
Thomas Leo Tom Clancy
Jr.
Thomas Clancy
Thomas L. Clancy
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Keep at it! The one talent that's indispensable to a writer is persistence. You must write the book, else there is no book. It will not finish itself. Do not try to commit art. Just tell the damned story.
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Speak your dialogue out loud. If it sounds like the way people talk, then write it down.
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If you don't write the book, the book ain't gonna get written.
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Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.
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I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.
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I think about the characters I've created and then I sit down and start typing and see what they will do. There's a lot of subconscious thought that goes on. It amazes me to find out, a few chapters later, why I put someone in a certain place when I did. It's spooky.
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